Egils Levits

Egils Levits (30 June 1955-) was President of Latvia from 12 July 2019, succeeding Raimonds Vejonis.

Biography
Egils Levits was born in Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union in 1955 to a Jewish father and a Latvian mother. The family emigrated to West Germany in 1972, and they lived in Germany until Latvia regained its independence in 1990. In 1993, Levits was elected as a Latvian Way deputy, and he served as ambassador to Austria, Switzerland, and Hungary. In 2011 and 2015, he ran for President with the backing of the National Alliance of Latvia, and he won the 2019 presidential election. He opposed the admission of refugees and changes to the financial system, boasting that Latvia had one of the strongest economies in Europe.